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Issues that the courts at the state level hande

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•municipal/special courts typically handle traffic/parking citations and small claims family issues and wills

•upper courts handle appeals and more serious civil & criminal cases

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A central responsibility of the state

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•charters local government-

▪️dillon’s rule - state dictates recognition of local governments

▪️incorporation - official recognition of a local government entity

▪️local governmenttypes i

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Types of local government

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•cities

•counties

•school districts

•special districts

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Legislative branches of california

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•senate

•assembly

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Head f the executive branch at the state level

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•governor

- budgetary authority, veto powers, appointment, pardon/ parole/ commute/ extradition authority

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City and state revenues

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•revenues (see 10.1)

-personal tax

-sales tax

•expenditures (10.2)

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Foreign policy

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-mix of military, diplomatic and economic policies that define US relation with other nations which includes:

>military tools/policy

>diplomacy

>economic tools/policy

>protectionism

>sanctions, tariffs, quotas

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Realism

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Emphasizes protection of self interest; sees the world as an inherently dangerous place where actors are motivated by self-interest

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Civil rights

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“Guarantees the equal treatment by government officials regarding politicarights, the judicial system and public programs”

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Libel

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A published false statement that is damaging to person’s reputation; a written defamation

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Agenda setting

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•ability of the news media to influence the importance placed on the topics of the public agenda

•mainstream media still set agenda set agenda

-most visited online resources are still hard news sources

-new saggregator sites

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American political parties and platforms

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A political party is a group organized to nominate candidates and try to win political power through election. There are 2 political parties, republican and democratic. The democratic party favors higher taxes and social programs. They also tend to support same sec marriage and women’s right to abort. They are also in favor of no role in religion in government matters.

In republican party, they prefer lower taxes and they lead to dependency that private market would be better. They support religious influence and they are opposed of same sex marriage and abortion

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Civil liberties and corresponding amendments

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Civil liberties is the rights and freedoms that government is obligated to protect, typically by not interfering with them. Typically based on the bill of rights.

Amendments II: the right to bear arms

Amendments VII: right to a trialby jury in civil suits

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The obama doctrine

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The obama doctrine describes one or several principles of the foreign policy of US former president barack obama. The doctrine would emphasize negotiation and collaboration rather than negotiation and unilateralism in international affairs.

The obama doctrine is idealistic becoming a realistic because he may have initially planned to have a peaceful negotiation but once threatened, he resort to a unilateral decision which defines what being a realist is. He act upon self-interest regardless of the consequences that the other party would go through.

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Public opinion

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Public opinion is political beliefs an attitudes of the public on matters of relevance determined by surveys/polls. This is important since democracy is ruled by the people. Polls gives a general idea of what the public think

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The effects on low political trust and voter turn out on democracy

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Low political trust develop because people get discouraged with all of social pressure, requirements and the complexity of the system. Even the election day timing is inconvenient. Therefore, there are only few people who are interested in voting. This imposes democracy since there’s a disproportion voter turn out percentage representing the people.

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Political socialization and “agents of socialization”

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Political socialization-process by which individuals come to have certain core beliefs and political attitudes.

“Agents of socialization”

-family

-schools

-popular culture

-major events

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The progressive movement and the initiative process

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Progressive movement is designed to mitigate/ end corruption in government and give more direct authority to the populace...

Initiative process are the proposed bills that people get to vote on. This is done by getting the required amount of signature depending on the proposed bill to get approved. This is a direct democracy since people are directly involved in making the decision.

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Positive and negatives of initiative process

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Positive:

Direct democracy

Any bill can be passed

Negative:

Anybody can promote a proposition

It is time consuming to get signatures

I think we should keep this method of democracy but there should be a modification where the proposed bill has to have a significant amount of approval from the people before it gets passed into legislation.

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Methods and means of affecting change in american politics and government

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There are many methods and means of affecting change in American politics and government. One of the few methods are through establishing amendments, voting, petitions, initiative process etc

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Major social movements

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Major social movements includes the

•abolitionist movement, a movement to end slavery

•the women’s suffrage movement, a movement for women to win the right to vote in the US

•the labor movement, a movement for working rights. It protects the common interest of workers which is to have better working conditions, wages & benefits.

• the civil rights movement, a movement that is committed to non violent civil dispbedience